Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-10-28
T'lG Old and The New.

Sit down, good brother, an d
listen bitf DO yOu know that
Virginia is the oldest settled of the
States? That she is seventy-hve
years older than Pennsylvania !
That Penn. was a free state and
Va, a slave state ? That slavery
shut out all the capital and skill
and enterprise that made young
Penn. 90 spinning along the road
of progress to wealth. and power,
leaving poor old Va. so far in the
rear that she was almost forgotten ?
Slavery built a wall between Va,
and all the money and skill and
enterprise that built Philadelphia,
and Pittsburg, and Boston, and
Brooklyn, and Cincinnati and
Chicago, etc. Slavery sealed and
rolled a stone against the mouth of
every coal mine and iron mine in
the South. Slavery was an in
junction against the erection OF the
factory and school house in the
Southern States. 1t puts its re-
tarding hand on the throttle bar of
every railway engine that turned
its headlight southwark. 1t hlssed
the dogs of free. trade on every iron
man who might have been ready to
put steel rail.mill on Southern
soil. 1t held back with its powerful
arm every Southern State from the
race for supremacy and Opulence
i'm America. 1t held Virginia
back until Pennsylvania not
only gained its lost seyenty.fve
years. but had gotten far IN her
front, and was proud, rich, popu.
lous and independent. The Re-
publican party, like an angel OF
progress, rolled this black stone
from the front of our door to
wealth-it demolished the northern
wall, it turned the great headlight
of free education southwark and
opened TO our vision the wOndrous
picture of our natural wealth.
Then the steel rolling mill was
built, and steel rail fell from $3.50
a ton to S2S a ton. The Republican
party ran up the flag Of protection
The steel rail was laid III the marsh
of Tazewell. 1t smOte with the
rod OF Moses the Flat Top Noun
tain and POcahontas was built, and
on It's hundreds of affairs the smoke
of its glad sacrifice ascends daily
! to heaven. 1t built Birmingham,
/ Admission, South Pittsburg, and
( Chattanooga. 1t set to spinning a
million of spindles in the quiet
South. 1t broke the backbone OF
the Cumberland mountain and put
the coal CRATE in our Tennessee
and Virginia dwellings. It opened
the canyon and set the Kanawha
/ Valley able. 1t tunneled the
Alleghar and built the coke
oven and the furnace at LOwmOor
1t doubled the population OF such
old cities as Richmond and Nash
vile, and Memphis, and quadrupled
their wealth. 1t flashed before OuI
vision such coming cities as Roam
oke. and Bristol, and Mineral city
1t carried the pick and dynamite
cartridge into CIInch Valley ant
put a price on the undiscovered
wealth to the north Of that river
1t raised the wages of la Dor
brought the cash purchaser to tn
door of the southern farmer, mad
education cheap, put the humbles
Door boy on his feet, and cheapene'
the cost of living to every famll,
IN the south. These have been tn
mission of the Republican partS
Are there no restitution to the los
slave Z You say you can't sc e it,
In the name of the Multiple
wealth and freedom and progres
of the New South can't yc feel it
Who made the Nclc SOWth- VIII
but the Republican party !-Brist'
NcocS.